Regarding the anti-christ thing: There are a few protestant denominations that fundamentally reject the idea that a person had any choice in whether or not to follow God to begin with. The Calvinist branch is especially big on this, since that holds that people are so sinful that they are fundamentally incapable of choosing to follow God of their own volition, and thus only the people God picked out to follow him and be saved will lead a life that ends in following God.